Five Cities Most Threatened by Natural Disasters

10/11/2013 3:39PM

The U. N. expects that 68% of the world’s population will live in urban areas by 2050. Many of these cities are located on the coast and threatened by floods, earthquakes and other natural hazards. MarketWatch's Rex Crum discusses the cities most threatened by natural disasters. (Photo: AP)

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I ... in sentences go ... it's always a major concern in fact it was about twenty four years ago the last major earthquake the city ... during the World series of this ... year so the fact ... that the pain on where you live in the world different types of natural disasters are different concerns ... I'm Rex Crum MarketWatch with a look at the five areas of the world's most threatened by an Apple disasters all this data come from sweet sweet group which is the ... insurance company in the reinsurance company and number five on the list is JAKARTA Indonesia The Capital City there ... has the potential population affected by disaster twenty seven point seven million people the greatest concern for earthquakes and flying from rivers ... in the fourth place on Alyssa's city of very close me Osaka Kobe Japan because I was living there at the time of the last major earthquake that killed about sixty five hundred people back in nineteen ninety five ... there's about thirty two million people in the region that are potentially affected by disaster and of course earthquakes are the main concern in the region and a third place on the list is the Pearl River Delta area of China with about thirty four half million people ... oh what makes the significance it covers the areas of Hong Kong Macau some of the southeastern China ... a major business areas ... in fact the gross domestic product from the reach of six hundred nineteen billion dollars ... now well earthquakes are almost nonexistent the main concern is flooding ... Out typhoons anything coming out from the South China Sea that way number two on Alyssa's Manila the capital of the Philippines with thirty four point six million people in its metro region ... the main concern there is flooding from heavy monsoon rains as it seems to me though it's it's the Philippines ... and cause the most damage when a financial disaster does occur ... and taking the gold medal in first place in the region around Tokyo Yokohama Japan with fifty seven point one million people ... in Japan known for a lot of earthquakes but also other potential damage from tsunami isn't storms coming from the Pacific Ocean as well ...